A little more about me
Connie Noftsier
When I was nine my mom bought me an embroidery kit and I fell in love with stitching! I put embroidery on everything, my apron I made in Home Ec class needed just a little something to personalize it as mine, shirts, pillow cases, you name it, it would look better with embroidery on it! Even my floppy jean hat didn't get out of the house without a little something extra embroidered on it!
I hand embroidered a set of pillowcases and my 5th grade teacher saw me working on it in study hall and offered to put a beautiful crocheted edge on them while she sailed to far off places in the summer months. Wasn't she a gem and a kind fellow textile artist? I have those pillow cases to this day!
My passion for fiber art continued once I got married and I created hooped wedding samplers for many of our friends as gifts.
Then it progressed to crewel needlework and then counted cross stitch as our children grew.
Recently I became fascinated by 3D embroidery and needle painting and have developed intricate patterns for several Adirondack fiber art mushrooms, leaves, moss and flowers making sculptural art from wood collected in the foothills of the Adirondacks to display on mantles, walls and tabletops.
The process of foraging in the woods for edible mushrooms with my husband in the Adirondacks and the 1000 Islands to photograph, study, and have for dinner is a fulfilling adventure that I find I crave more and more.
I have exciting plans for my nature focused series and will be adding butterflies, moths and dragonflies and more each year. Watch for my next release!
I also custom design aerial landscapes of clients homes, farms, camps and businesses and custom design baby sonograms. I would love to work with you on a custom piece, either landscape, sonogram or sculptural fiber art to suit your taste and artistic vision.
I hand embroidered a set of pillowcases and my 5th grade teacher saw me working on it in study hall and offered to put a beautiful crocheted edge on them while she sailed to far off places in the summer months. Wasn't she a gem and a kind fellow textile artist? I have those pillow cases to this day!
My passion for fiber art continued once I got married and I created hooped wedding samplers for many of our friends as gifts.
Then it progressed to crewel needlework and then counted cross stitch as our children grew.
Recently I became fascinated by 3D embroidery and needle painting and have developed intricate patterns for several Adirondack fiber art mushrooms, leaves, moss and flowers making sculptural art from wood collected in the foothills of the Adirondacks to display on mantles, walls and tabletops.
The process of foraging in the woods for edible mushrooms with my husband in the Adirondacks and the 1000 Islands to photograph, study, and have for dinner is a fulfilling adventure that I find I crave more and more.
I have exciting plans for my nature focused series and will be adding butterflies, moths and dragonflies and more each year. Watch for my next release!
I also custom design aerial landscapes of clients homes, farms, camps and businesses and custom design baby sonograms. I would love to work with you on a custom piece, either landscape, sonogram or sculptural fiber art to suit your taste and artistic vision.
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Baby Sonogram Embroidery
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Aerial Embroidery Landscape
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Sculptural embroidery art process
Sculpture fiber art finished
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